Omarosa Says She Was 'Haunted' by Trump's Tweets

By Ted JohnsonReuters

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) - Omarosa Manigault Newman, who
has followed up her stint at the White House with a new gig as a
contestant on "Celebrity Big Brother," said she was "haunted by
tweets every single day."

"I was like, what is he going to tweet next?" she said in a
clip from the second episode of the three-night season premiere
of the show, which was released by CBS in advance of the airing
on Thursday.

Speaking to Ross Mathews, Omarosa said she "tried to be that
person" who questioned Trump's tweeting.

"Then all of the people around him attacked me. It was like,
'Keep her away from him. Don't give her access. Don't let her
talk to him.'"

When Mathews asked her who has "the power to say, 'what's
going on?'" she responds, "I don't know. I'm not there. It's not
my circus. ... I'd like to say, 'It's not my problem,' but I
can't say that because, like, it's bad."

Mathews then said to her, "I need you to say, 'It's going to
be OK.'"

"It's not going to be OK. It's not," Omarosa said.

She told Mathews that she took the job at the White House
because, "I felt it was like a call to duty. I felt like I was
serving my country, not serving him."

Omarosa was assistant to the president and director of
communications for the Office of Public Liaison. Her departure
from the White House, effective on Jan. 20, was announced in
December. CBS News reported that she was escorted out of the
White House as she attempted to appeal to Trump, but she has
challenged some of the accounts of her exit.